Why Harris' Closing Argument Is Focused More on Trump Than Her

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Harris has increasingly used the word to describe Trump in recent days.
52% : "If Mike Pence does the right thing," Trump told the crowd he had gathered that day, "we win the election."
52% : A digital ad the Harris campaign released Thursday shows menacing black and white images of Trump as a voiceover from Harris cites his admiration for dictators and calls him, "unstable and unfit to serve.
41% : As polling shows her and Trump essentially tied in the seven battleground states, the Harris campaign believes emphasizing the former President's admiration for dictators and vindictive talk is the right approach in the home stretch.
40% : That's been driven in part by the increasing frequency of comments from Trump that is raising anxiety among many voters about what he would do if he reclaimed presidential power.
37% : Given a chance on Fox News to explain those comments, Trump doubled down, saying there was "beauty" to Jan. 6 and "it's accurate" to call fellow Americans "enemies.
37% : John Kelly, who was Trump's longest serving White House chief of staff and was Secretary of Homeland Security, told the New York Times that Trump "prefers the dictator approach to government" and recalled that Trump had told him "Hitler did some good things too."
35% : But, now, with just over a week remaining until the polls close, Harris' final pitch to the voters is very much about drawing that same contrast with Trump that Biden emphasized for years.
25% : Trump said he wants "extreme power" and called his opponents "dangerous people" and the "enemy from within."
24% : Focus groups in those critical states have found that undecided voters are more likely to support Harris when she talks about turning the page on Trump's dark worldview and when they are reminded of the many people who have worked closely with Trump and don't trust him to be President again, according to a campaign aide.
21% : It's where Trump encouraged his supporters to help him overturn his election loss on Jan. 6, 2021, setting off a violent storming of the Capitol.
20% : Harris wants Americans to be reminded of what Trump said there on Jan. 6, and link it to the former President's recent comments laying out his autocratic vision for the Presidency.
18% : Aides had told Trump beforehand that Pence had no authority to change the result.
10% : Instead of talking about the stark danger to democracy Trump poses, Harris described herself as a former prosecutor who knew how to make a forceful case against Trump to voters.
8% : Trump wrote Wednesday on his social media platform that Harris' latest critiques of him come from "her warped mind" and she's stepped them up because she "sees that she is losing.
5% : Mark Milley, Trump's former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called Trump "fascist to the core," according to a book from Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward.Read more: Former Trump Aides Warn of Secret Presidential Crisis PowersThis represents a shift for Harris.

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